Improvement in picture-nails



B, H. BRADLEY.

PICTURE NAIL.

No. 83,913.' Patented N0V.10, 1868.

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Letters Patent No. 83,913, dated November 10. 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICTURE-NAES.

The Schedule refen'ed to in these Letters Patentand making part of thesame.

To all who/m it may concern:

Be it known that I, B, H. BRADLEY, of Waterbury,

in the county of NewHaven, and State of Connecti-V ticle known to thetrade as ,pictu1'e-nails,77 thatis, a`

nail or screw driven into the wall for the support of pictures, and forlike purposes and the invention con# sists in forming a head o1' hookupon the nail by turning the outer end at right angles to form the hook,or nearly so, and combining therewith a head constructed with a socketso as to slip onto the hooked end of the screw or nail. y

To enable others to construct my improvement,I will fully describe thesame, as illustrated `in the accompanying drawings.

A is the nail or screw, pointed or threaded as the case may be. Theouter end, I bend into a hook-shape,

so as to bring the end, B, into nearly a right-angular position to thespindle A.

D, the head, is formed of any suitable material, and of any desiredexternal form. Upon the back I form a socket, a, so as to 'hook on overthe end, B, of the nail. This is best done by punching the metal back,

and forcing the metal outward, as seen in g'. 4. The socket, however,may be otherwise formed, and the objectief my invention accomplished,which is to provide the nail with a hookedrend, and combining therewithan ornamental head, so that if, by accident, the liead'should beremoved, the hooked end of the nail will retain the cord, or, in otherwords, to take from the' head the support, or any par't of it, of thecord placed over the nail.

In pictureenails of common construction, if, by accident,'the head isremoved, there is nothing to prevent the cord slipping at once from thenail hence the great advantage of my improvement. i l

By the term picture-nail, I wishtobe understood as including all meansof attachment'of the article to4 the wall.

I do not claim attaching ahead to a picture-nail by means of a recess orgroove upon the back of said head, to admit ofthe transverse insertionof the head of the nail, as such, I am aware, is not new.

Having fully described my invention,

What I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- A picture-nail, having formed upon its end the hook C, and combinedwith the head B, constructed so as to be attached to the end,'-D, of thehook, substantially in the manner herein set forth.

B. H. BRADLEY.

XVitnesses 01ans. W. GLLLETTE, A. B. WILSON.

